A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
BY PAVEL OVCHINNIKOV, MAKER VASILIY SEMENOV, MOSCOW, 1879-1880
Comprising a tray, a coffee pot, a teapot, a milk jug, a covered sugar bowl, a covered jam pot, sugar tongs, a sugar shovel, a lemon fork, a sweet meal fork, twelve teaspoons, and ten coffee spoons; all finely nielloed with the views of Moscow, within strapwork bands, the tray engraved with the monogram 'SCI' and inscribed in German 'Dedicated to the jubilee couple / for Silver wedding 9 October 1862 / 9 October 1887 / von M.S. and J.S.', the coffee and teapots with ivory insulators, all marked throughout with 'P. Ovchinnikov' in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant and the maker's initials
The tray, 16 1/8 in. (40.7 cm.) diameter
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Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 17 November 1992, lot 73.
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A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
BY PAVEL OVCHINNIKOV, MAKER VASILIY SEMENOV, MOSCOW, 1879-1880
Comprising a tray, a coffee pot, a teapot, a milk jug, a covered sugar bowl, a covered jam pot, sugar tongs, a sugar shovel, a lemon fork, a sweet meal fork, twelve teaspoons, and ten coffee spoons; all finely nielloed with the views of Moscow, within strapwork bands, the tray engraved with the monogram 'SCI' and inscribed in German 'Dedicated to the jubilee couple / for Silver wedding 9 October 1862 / 9 October 1887 / von M.S. and J.S.', the coffee and teapots with ivory insulators, all marked throughout with 'P. Ovchinnikov' in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant and the maker's initials
The tray, 16 1/8 in. (40.7 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 17 November 1992, lot 73.
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